Malice by Chris Wooding

Publishers’ blurb

Enter this terrifying parallel world if you dare! Everything about Malice is original and just a little bit different. Cleverly told as both a novel and a graphic novel, this is the scary story of how a kid disappears into the secret world of the comic Malice. Here, in a chilling techno world, lurks evil and danger which propel this dramatic, multi-layered adventure.

Everyone’s heard of it, but nobody’s read it… Seth and Kady have heard all the stories about MALICE – a secret comic about a strange and awful world full of traps and tricks, overseen by a sinister master of ceremonies, Tall Jake. But if rumours are to be believed, the children in this comic are real…